blu ray external player

Its a fruitless endeavour I'm afraid. Mac's can't play blu-ray movies.

 

You need an HDMI connection in order to connect a Blu-ray player to your Mac.

Apple is not supporting HDMI yet - probably never, which is really too bad.

The new super thin iMac should have an HDMI connection, especially since Apple removed the SuperDrive. If we have to purchase a stand alone optical drive now, they could at least acquiesce and give us HDMI capability.

 

Third-party software can be used to play Blu-ray discs on OS X via an external Blu-ray drive.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20077240-263/blu-ray-playback-comes-to-os-x/

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=98554

There are also ways to rip a Blu-ray to your hard drive and play the ripped image. Look in the AppleTV subforum for information on that.

 

Need a new optical drive

I'm considering getting an External USB Blu Ray drive. They go for around £20 on ebay and I'm tempted to get one as my iMac's Optical Drive has recently given up the will to read DVD's.

Has anyone here got one or know if they're any good as I can't justify £60 plus for one off Amazon?

 

What use on my 2008 Mac Pro was using a simple share Mac Blu Ray Player. I already had an older case that had SATA and Firewire 800 (in your case just get a USB3 capable case) and put in a Blu-ray player into it. It works great on my Dell display and runs great.

 

Connect external blu ray drive to mac mini

I want to connect a blu ray optical drive removed from a Dell laptop (model: Panasonic UJ-225) that has an IDE/PATA connection to my Mac Mini 2012. Is that possible via USB or other way? Like an external caddy?